Identifier

FBI_00158

Title

Dynamite Bombings of Jewish Facilities

Creator

Belmont, A.H. (FBI) & Hoover, J. Edgar (FBI)

Description

Series of communications regarding dynamite bombings of several Jewish facilities in South, perpetrated by the KKK. Document also includes newspaper clippings covering the incidents, letters from concerned community members, and a response from J. Edgar Hoover.

Source

100-HQ-135-Serial379-83, 29 April 1958 to 3 May 1958, Federal Bureau of Investigation Records, "Foreign Inspired Agitation Among American Negroes", Detroit FBI Files - Black Freedom.

Theme

Criminalization and Resistance, Community and Resistance

Type

Government Records, Publications

Level 1 Tag

Surveillance

Government Correspondence

"Race

Racism

Racialization"

COINTELPRO

Resistance

Detroit

Level 2 Tag

Racial Unrest

Profiling

Informants

Infiltration

Abuse by Government

Race & Ethnic Identity

COINTELPRO - Foreign Inspired Agitation Among American Negroes

Racial Inequality

Level 3 Tag

Federal Bureau of Investigation

J. Edgar Hoover

B’nai B’rith Women

Ku Klux Klan

Date

1958-04-29 to 1958-05-03

Location

Washington, D.C. & Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act